I am an avid user of Facebook and Instagram but just today, I took the liberty to visit a few different mainstream social media platform, which additionally included Twitter and tumbler. Though all four are almost ubiquitous and tremendously popular social norms, there are some fundamental differences in their purposes and more so functionalities. Facebook has become the cornerstone of social media hubs. It allows you to blog by posting status updates and even record live videos for your friends. Facebook is quite multifaceted and promotes the idea of building a network. The site, though it has evolved tremendously overtime is still user friendly. Twitter, another social media norm is a site that is specific to posting status update with limited characters, so most messages are abbreviated to written in a manner that a message has certain constraints. I have a relatively favorable opinion of Twitter and I further like the fact that Twitter can be used to update Facebook statuses. Instagram is slightly different, as it is more so focused on picture content. One can still post status but it has to be attached to a photo, so there is not much flexibility to its functionality. Instagram also tends to work better on a mobile device, rather than on a computer, as the webpage based version is view only. Tumbler merges the world of blogging with that of social networking. Tumbler users post content from many different genres and subject matters. Though each of these social media platforms have their unique features, I really like the fact that many of the have interface functionalities, which allows them to be used interchangeably.
V irtual worlds or virtual technology can be used in a multiplicity of ways, including an augmented social media experience to even a virtual educational purpose, such as the teaching tool used for nurses, according to Stephanie Simons' article in The Wall Street Journal: "Avatar II: The Hospital." Typically, virtual worlds consist of visiting a sites via a virtual character, known as an avatar that is usually designed by an end-user to interact with other virtual users. These avatars are then used in a quasi-realistic interaction with others within virtual environments. Real life experiences and scenarios are played out in these virtual worlds. Virtual worlds foster a great sense of creativity, as one can be portrayed as whomever or whatever they want to be. In many cases, one can chose an identity of the opposite gender or even as a different species, or even a different nationality. They can foster or even express different personality or communication traits that th
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